episcopate
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One committee of English-speaking prelates that included Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden suggested that papal nuncios be bypassed in most communications between national episcopates and the Vatican.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the episcopates and churches in Europe have here a great task to perform.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has seemed wiser in this brief sketch to devote a paragraph to each of those bishops who either architecturally or historically made their episcopates events of national importance.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Addleshaw, Percy
The Bishop had voted for the Church Temporalities' Bill in 1833, which at one swoop had suppressed ten Irish episcopates.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The shortness of their episcopates probably indicates that it was a time of great tribulation.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
